Word: sacramentally
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...virtually abdicated. He has handed over to the Church, and particularly to the pope . . . all things relating to the affairs of His Church upon earth . . . The Roman Church, to all intents and purposes, patronizes and controls Jesus Christ, whose life and influence it mediates to the faithful through the sacrament of the Mass, and in other ways...
...This is a very interesting circumstance of time & place. Today, I am 27 years a priest, 42 years a Jesuit. Today, I baptized an infant and gave the last sacrament to an old woman. Today, as I write this, I am gazing at tomorrow, 2½ miles across the straits separating the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. A Soviet lookout is observing my Little Diomede mission as I pick him out in my binoculars. We are worlds apart...
...former schoolmate, a priest, who found his face "cold as alabaster . . . Bubbling with wit and exceedingly kind, he seemed to belong only in slight degree to earth. But, alas, he was not thinking of heaven." Chopin told his friend, "I should not like to die without having received the sacrament, because I don't want to bring grief to my mother. But I cannot take it, because I don't understand it in your...
...eight years' imprisonment plus confiscation of his property and loss of civil rights for ten years. The charge: when called to give the last rites of the church to a woman apparently dying of pneumonia, Father Fajstl first asked if she were a Communist, then withheld the sacrament until she had sent her son to party headquarters to turn in her membership card. Instead of dying, the government said, the woman recovered and denounced the priest for thus applying the recent Vatican decree of excommunication (TIME, July...
...system imposed upon the people by the priests," he might gain valuable insight into the more important non-political motives of the Church. As it is, his disdain for the hierarchy blinds the balance of his insight so that he never separates the mystic from the mystigogue, or the sacrament from the sacrilege. The result is a book on an important topic which will contribute little but flame to any genuine controversy of abuses that may exist. Lawrence F. O'Dennell